Herding Cats

AUGUST 27, 2017

After having worked for outsourcing, consultancy and product companies I believe that creating a place where people really trust each other is easier when software engineers and stakeholders are both part of the same organization. This notion shows that governance is not considered a requirement for the business.

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Herding Cats

MAY 8, 2016

Here are some books and papers that can provide you with all the tools needed to learn to estimate in the presence of uncertainty. As well these books and papers can show you the snake oil salesman's fallacy that estimates are hard, are a waste, and aren't needed to make decisions in the presence of uncertainty. . If not, walk away.

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Herding Cats

JULY 28, 2017

This was my starting point for becoming a software engineer rather than a physicist, by the way. . What book did you not read? Hooked up to the experiment was a series of oscilloscopes with Poloride cameras attached to capture the signal of something interesting to the Principle Investigators. Stop talking and go find out why.

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Herding Cats

MARCH 9, 2017

My early metrics book, Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement, and Estimation (Prentice Hall/Yourdon Press, 1982) , played a role in the way many budding software engineers quantified work and planned their projects. […] The book’s most quoted line is its first sentence: “You can’t control what you can’t measure.”

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MPUG

MAY 6, 2021

We are a consulting company in the DC Baltimore area that specializes in project and portfolio management for about 80% of our customers in the government space, the other 20 in the commercial space. I actually got my degree in software engineering and moved up into project management like a lot of us did back in the day.

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Teamweek

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Software developers will be relieved to find Backlog , a PM tool built solely for IT and software engineering teams. It may sound outdated to most of us, but sometimes, there are good reasons to stick to on-premise software. Desktop vs. online PM software. Open-source project management software .

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Herding Cats

JUNE 19, 2017

Please read the book in the previous sentence to see why this is critical and how it is done. Barry Boehm's work in “Software Engineering Economics”. In our domain, Root Cause Analysis is mandated before ANY suggested change for improvement, prevention, or corrective actions are taken. Our RCA method is the Apollo Method.

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NimbleWork

JANUARY 2, 2025

They drive meaningful change through their books, talks, social platforms, and real-world implementations. With over 30 years of experience, he is the president of Mountain Goat Software, specializing in building high-performance Agile teams. He pioneered Scrum at five companies, leading to its current widespread adoption.

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MPUG

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The number of software engineers is expected to triple the number of mechanical engineers this year alone. inaudible 00:28:24] Project management book of knowledge. All right, and then the engine behind a lot of that is the CDS, the common data service. Their centerpiece will be a lot around that.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2017

I started my career as a Software Engineer , writing Fortran 77 signal processing algorithms to find and track missile launchers in the middle eastern desert. It was mathematically based, converting equations in books to Fortran using pre-written parts from the IBM Scientific Subroutine Package. Related articles.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Books for Cost and Schedule Forecasting. How To Estimate Almost Any Software Deliverable in 90 Seconds - here's an example to debunk all those posts that say e can't possibly estimate things we don't knwo the details of. Coming to the Table with Facts Improves the Conversation. Estimating Accuracy. Nice Estimating Example.

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Herding Cats

JANUARY 23, 2019

This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . This is the claim from the book.

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Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

This also meant developing software systems to support this effort. We were one of the first users of eXtreme Programming, long before Scrum was around and presented that early work in 2003, " Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment, Measuring velocity with Earned Value." . This is the claim from the book.

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MPUG

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Satya is a management professional, speaker, coach and author of six books, including the book I Want To Be An ACP. For example, last year, they audited a number of books into the ACP certification reference and they removed also a number of books. Now you’re thinking, how about mechanical engineer I just said.

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Herding Cats

MAY 10, 2019

Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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Herding Cats

MAY 11, 2019

Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , Vol. Software Engineering Institute, January 1996. De Meyer, C. Loch, and M.

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NimbleWork

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In fact, 43% would like a fully self-governed and independent approach to learn and grow in the workplace of the future. Encourage self-ruled learning and development (L&D). Just like with autonomous work, Generation Z prefers a more self-directed L&D path. Source: LinkedIn And yep (have you noticed it, too?):

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Teamweek

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

But entry-level software engineer jobs easily replaceable by AI, and roles in other areas, remain at risk of lay-offs. Sign up for free today, or book a demo to get a personalized introduction to how Toggl Hire can help you hire the tech talent you need to scale your business. Edie Goldberg , President at E.

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